Word: personally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About the only way for a Negro to get his name in the first few pages of most Alabama newspapers is to do bodily harm to a white person. The small number of other endeavors that make the papers are ordinarily consigned to what is known in the trade as the "nigger page" (a compositor for the Selma Times-Journal recently precipitated a demonstration by angry Negroes when he inadvertantly failed to remove a line of type reading "Nigger Page" from that section of the paper...
...which I think needs a great deal of analysis. You can get a better word than face, no doubt, but the generalization I suggest here is that the Chinese are more face-conscious by far because of the way they are set up in their society. The stress on personal conduct, your outward action towards others as a basis upon which you are judged, comes straight down from the classics to the present day. This leads to a great concern about how you look. How you look is an indication of how you are doing. Is your conduct proper...
...impossibility of accepting defeat, the Arab leaders will have to teach them to accept the inevitable postwar concessions if they hope to survive negotiations. And negotiations must come, no matter how long the Arabs drag their feet. King Hussein runs a very real danger to his own person and throne for his efforts, but in the long run he is bound to help the Arab cause by raising a voice of comparative reason and moderation at a time when Arabia needs it more than ever before...
...whose sake does she break the law? "For nobody. For myself." Even though she knows Creon will remove the dirt, she also knows that "what a person can do, a person ought to do." It is said that mankind's strongest drives are sex, hunger, and self-preservation. But there are some people for whom conscience is just as strong, or stronger--at times terrifyingly strong. Antigone is one such; she prefers to die rather than to try to live with a guilty conscience and with compromise...
...Sophocles is a pigheaded, authoritarian tyrant who is absolutely confident of his own infallibility. The Creon of Anouilh-Carnovsky is quite different. We even learn that in his youth "he loved music, bought rare manuscripts, was a kind of art patron." But now he has become the sort of person against whom Archibald MacLeish has just warned us: "Man in the electronic age is not a votary of the arts--he has more serious business. He sees himself, whatever his economic system, as a social and scientific animal, the great unraveler of the universe, its potential master, and his tool...